Combined frame and false barrel for guns.



PATENTED JAN. 14. 1908.

'W, F. MARKHAM & E. s. ROE.

COMBINED FRAME AND FALSEIBARRBI} FOR GUNS.

APPLICATION FILED APB.15. 1907.

, formed of separate sections which are united tion 1) into a polygonal section.

WILLIAM F MARKHAM AND ERNEST ROE, OF PLYMOUTH, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNORS TC .l/[ARKHAM AIR RIFLE COMIANY, OF PLYMOUTH. MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF MIUHIGAN.

COMBINED FRAME AND FALSE BARREL FOR GUHE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed April 15, 1907- Serial No. 368,332-

No. 878,370. ?atented Jan. 14, 1008.

form a butt joint, and where a portion of the Be it known that we, lNILLlAM I. l\lARK 1 barrel isuscd forthe air compression cylinder, HAM and ERNEsr S. Roe, citizens of the thejoint at this portion may be soldered. United States of America, residing at Plym- The section of the frame portion,illustrated outh, in the county oi YJayne and State of 5 in Fig. 2, also has the opposite edges of the Michigan,haveinvented certainnew and use 5 blank abntted, but the remainder of the ful Im rovements in a Combined Frame and i frame portion is formed with downwardly- False arrel for Guns, of which the following i extending parallel flanges, between which the is a specification, reference being had therein stock portion of the gun and the spring comto the accompanying drawings. ressing lever may be engaged.

It is the object of the invention to 0011- What I claim as my invention is: struot both the frame and the false barrel of 1. In a gun, a barrel and a frame formed a gun of'a single sheet metal blank. from an integral sheet metal blank having a T 0 this end, the invention consists in the shoulder formed along peculiar construction as heneinaiter set forth. tween the two portions of the In the drawings, Figure tie a. perspective View; Figs, 2, 3 and i are cross sections respectively on lines w w, yy, and zz, of Fig. l..- Fig. 5 is a lan View of the sheet metal blank, of which the frame and barrel are formed.

A is the barrel the frame portion.

To all whom it may concern:

blank, the barte edges of the l rel portion having the opposi blank abutted and being of cylindrical form land the frame portion being of polygonal lform having downward. extending parallel I flanges, for the purpose described.

2. In a gun, a be: rel and a frame formed and B .from an integral sheet metal blank, and having a shoulder formed along the line of divi sion between the two )ortions of the blank.

3. In a gun, a ban-ail and a frame struck up from an integral sheet metal blank, the barrel portion having the opposite edges of the blank abutted on the lower side thereof, and being of cylindrical form, and the frame portion of the gun,

These parts are usually to each other in various ways, such as by i clamping in the frame scction'above the rear I end of the barrel or by slotting it thereabout. With the resent construction both ortions i are forme from a single'sheet meta blank, I such as illustrated in Fig. 5, in which a is the l portion being of polygonal form. barrelforming portion and btheirametorrning '1 *1. In a gun, a barrel and a frame formed portion. This blank is then formed up by from an integral sheet metal blank, the barmeans of suitable dies, so as to bond the porrel portion having the opposite edges of the tion a into a cylindrical section, and the orblank abutted and being of cylindrical form, At the inc and the frame portion being of polygonal the metal form, having a shoulder between it and the givesthe cylindrical portion. appearance-oi a two part construction, and In testimony whereotwe aflixour signatures a so form? a slkiloigderior anchoring the abut: in presence of two witnesses. ment Wit iin t e arre 1 A gun thus constructed is both cheaper lgllilflril t and better, than oonstruoticnsin which the x f barrel and frame are formed of separate sec- Witnesses: tions. The barrel portion, at the op osite C. SHQRTMAN, edges of the blank, are brought toge't or to i E. 1. Lemon).

of division between these portions, is bent to form a shoulder O, which the line of division be- 

